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    Everyone is born with a special something that they are good at, something that makes them different than everyone else. They all have one thing (or more) that makes them special and unique, whether they know it or not. For some people, it's a sport. For others, it could be singing, building things, playing an instrument, or just about anything else. For me, it's writing. Just seeing a blank piece of paper and a pencil makes my brain start thinking of what to write, how to write it, what emotions to put in it, and so on. I've loved writing as long as I can remember, and I've experimented with all sorts of styles. My favorite by far is poetry.
   
  The earliest I can remember writing was in first grade, when I started writing stories for my favorite teacher. They were nothing all that special; they were about a cat named cat who lived in a pet store and had adventures. But my teacher, Mrs. Gould, seemed to like them and encouraged me to keep writing. After that, I wrote a few stories throughout elementary school, but nothing too special happened to my writing until I was in the seventh grade.
 
    Over Christmas break, I went up north with my grandmother to visit some other relatives. While we were there, we stopped at a rock store (rocks being my obsession at that point in time,) and I bought what was, in my opinion, the most beautiful        quartz crystal in the world. When I brought it home, it became my good luck charm, and I took it everywhere. One night I was bored and I was looking at how shiny it was, and I started singing about it. In no time, I had written a poem about it: my first ever poem. I showed it around, and everyone seemed to like it. My friend Heather showed me an ad she had seen in a magazine about a poetry contest and, of course, I entered. I never won anything, but it got me thinking about writing more than just stories. We had done a poetry unit in English the previous year, so I dug the old folder out of my closet and started writing.
 
  From that first accidental poem, my writing has changed more than words could ever describe. These days, all my thoughts and feelings eventually end up on paper. When I feel angry or upset or sad, I just find a piece of paper and pour out my emotions. Through my poetry, I have discovered a new me; a me who isn't afraid of what people think of  her, who does what she wants and feels what she feels.
 
  I still write stories every now and then, but not as much. Poetry is the only thing that keeps me alive and sane sometimes;  it's the one way to make myself feel better. When I write, I feel like I'm doing what I'm meant to do, it's like I'm fulfilling my destiny. A lot of people these days get the wrong idea about poetry; they only think of people like Shakespeare, they think of poetry as a bunch of hard to understand words with hidden meanings. But it's not; it's much more than that. A poem is shaped after the person who writes it. It can be dark, happy, sad, funny, religious, or whatever the writer wants it to be. But no matter what people think of my poetry, or of poetry in general, it's one of the most important things in my life. It's part of who I am, and I couldn't stop writing it if I wanted to.